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Since 2006 The Canadian Youth Climate Coalition has mobilized and supported young people in Canada to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our generation - the climate crisis. Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen how the youth climate justice movement has changed and grown, and we think this…

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Jonathan Rosenblum , union activist from Seattle and author of recently published Beyond $15 , will be talking about the lessons to be learned from the struggle for $15 in the USA. Rosenblum's experience

Dear Friends of SJS, Please join us for the Annual Social Justice Lecture and opening keynote of the Common Vision, Common Action conference . Information about the lecture and conference is provided below. Thank you!

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Billionaire companies are trying to bully the Liberals into putting corporate profits before our rights in NAFTA negotiations this weekend in Ottawa. Help us fight back - send a message to the government calling for the removal of toxic corporate rights rules from NAFTA.

Ontarians for a Just Accountable…

Thanks for participating in our issue survey last week. Thanks to 233 donations from the Leadnow community, we turned the results into a full page ad in the Hill Times newspaper. Here’s what MPs saw when they opened the paper this morning:

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When MPs return from summer break next week the Conservatives and their new leader Andrew Scheer will be ramping up divisive, fear-mongering attacks on asylum seekers, Omar Khadr and the Liberals’ new tax reform plan.[1]

We’ve seen time after time how the Conservatives will stop at nothing to

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rabble.ca 15th anniversary. " Activists, like the ones I call “water warriors”, can’t win their struggles without a media that brings under-reported facts and critical analysis to the surface. We need a media that doesn’t just assume privatization makes sense for public goods. We need a media that doesn’t turn away…

This statement is written on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. We acknowledge that colonization exists, that without its violent impacts we would not be who we are and

We want to run an open letter with the Leadnow community's priorities in Ottawa's leading political newspaper next week, in time for when MPs return. But we need your help to raise the money to do it. Can you chip in to help us place the ad?

On Friday, BC’s new NDP government kicked off a new session of the legislature with a Throne Speech that promised to deliver on many of their campaign promises, including holding a referendum on proportional representation in fall 2018.

DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER! Resilient Streets Fall Kick-Off Workshops Want to build more community on your street or in your building? We are so excited about our upcoming Resilient Streets Kick off workshops this fall in new neighbourhoods: James Bay and Burnside Gorge. And we hope you will join

Please share far and wide. Men encouraged to atte nd, content warning for survivors, support before, during, and after the film

A Better Man – a film by Attiya Khan & Lawrence Jackman

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Bid adieu to summer with a fabulous outdoor concert in North Vancouver — Coast Salish territory. Join us for an outdoor extravaganza and solidarity event in support of First Nations’ legal challenges to

One week to go! The 8th Annual Latin American and Spanish Film Week at the University of Victoria's Cinecenta will take place from Tuesday Sept. 19th to Sunday Sept. 24th. Regular Cinecenta prices apply, and tickets will be available at the box office at the screening of each film. All films will be

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PAOV -- with work already underway for the Line 3 pipeline in Canada, more than 29,000 people are moving to stop the US side of the project. They're concerned about the environmental impact and treaty rights of indigenous communities.

We received some really great news last week. TransCanada suspended its application for the Energy East pipeline project and hinted they might abandon the project altogether. This decision came right after the National Energy Board announced that they would consider climate change impacts in their review of the

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Last week, news broke that an Ontario judge postponed punishment for Chance Macdonald — a man charged with sexual assault and confinement of a 16-year-old girl — so that it wouldn’t interfere with his internship.

Macdonald eventually pled guilty to and was convicted of the lesser charge of common assault, meaning his

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